Getting public school police officers the care they needed meant taking on the risk of visiting emergency rooms during the pandemic.
Destination care, centers of excellence, medical tourism, benefit driven travel and geographically recognized care centers – mean what exactly? And if the concept is quickly growing in popularity for group health patients, can it be applied for workers’ compensation claimants too?
While technology and automation have dominated the conversation in the insurance industry for the past few years, it is important that the property and casualty industry understands the importance of digitizing while maintaining the element of human touch in claims processing.
Updates to how injured workers can access care in the wake of a 6.4 magnitude earthquake in Puerto Rico.
A fuller awareness of the risks, costs, and consequences of opioid medication use in clinical pain management is growing, and the search for safe, effective, and affordable alternatives to them has taken on new urgency. The quest for opioid alternatives that offer a measure of effective analgesia (without craving, tolerance, and addiction) is taking on an increased priority in discovery laboratories and across the ranks of practicing clinicians and other health care professionals. Beyond new discovery, another potential source of such alternatives is in reevaluating existing medications approved for pain as well as those approved for other uses that may also hold promise for use as analgesics.